Because of this earth-shattering explosion, the military is currently in turmoil and is conducting a thorough investigation.
People who have completed the investigation and questioning are free to move around and explore the nearby towns.
However, Xu Ningyan's situation was special, and for her safety, the military leaders hoped that she would not leave the guesthouse.
After all, the bomb she set off not only exposed Xu Changfeng, but also brought up other people, and many others were dismissed and are now under investigation because of this incident.
At the guesthouse, under my own nose, my safety is guaranteed.
The worst-case scenario is that once they leave the guesthouse, it's one thing for those being investigated to be lenient, but if their families become dissatisfied and do something bad to Xu Ningyan, that would be disastrous.
Gu Zhiyuan, however, did not have this restriction.
He's been very busy lately, leaving early and returning late every day.
Before coming, he had told Xu Ningyan frankly that he was accompanying her to the Northwest Military Region because he was worried about her being alone, and also because he needed to do some business there. The two of them traveling together would not only be able to take care of each other, but also help him cover for himself.
Xu Ningyan immediately said she understood, so she had no other thoughts about Gu Zhiyuan's busy schedule of leaving early and returning late.
Anyway, she couldn't leave the guesthouse. She had been in the military region for several days and had heard that there were many delicious foods here, but she hadn't had the chance to see them.
Every day she could only wait anxiously for Gu Zhiyuan to come back and bring her something.
Fortunately, she was a patient person. Since she couldn't go out, she would stay in her room every day, do some practice problems, and then wander around the guesthouse to get some exercise.
Most of the others who came with us couldn't stay after the investigation. Some missed their land and family back home, while others couldn't get used to the food here and started clamoring to go back.
Their trip was worthwhile; the army provided food, lodging, and travel expenses, and each of them received a gift before leaving. They not only broadened their horizons but also gained practical benefits, and they'll probably be able to brag about it for years to come back to their unit.
The few remaining people, like Xu Ningyan, had their pensions or allowances seized and were left here to await the military's decision and outcome.
They were timid, and when they heard that the matter had blown up and many military officers had been arrested, they were terrified and dared not leave their rooms without being told by the military.
Therefore, Xu Ningyan was basically the only person seen wandering around the courtyard of the guesthouse every day.
Xu Lei and Xu Jing came to find Xu Ningyan, but they were stopped by the sentry at the entrance of the guesthouse and not allowed to enter.
The brother and sister got angry, started making a fuss and crying, but the sentry remained unmoved.
This attracted Xu Ningyan, who was taking a walk in the yard.
Xu Ningyan strolled over slowly, and after listening to just a couple of sentences, she understood the identities of the two people.
Seeing that the two were still arguing with the sentry, he couldn't help but clear his throat: "You're looking for me?"
Upon hearing the voice, Xu Lei and Xu Jing turned around and saw a young woman, about seventeen or eighteen years old, slender and thin, with jet-black hair and a healthy complexion, wearing a white shirt and green military pants, standing in the sentry post, looking at them curiously.
"You are Xu Ningyan?" Xu Lei and Xu Jing, the brother and sister, looked at Xu Ningyan with complicated expressions for a long time.
Xu Jing, in particular, thought that Xu Ningyan, who came from the countryside and had supposedly been tormented by the Xu family for more than ten years, must be a thin, unpresentable village girl.
Unexpectedly, Xu Ningyan looked more like a city girl than she did at first glance.
Her resentment deepened: Since they were living such a good life, and seemed to have never suffered, why did she have to come and destroy their family?
Therefore, his gaze towards Xu Ningyan was filled with hostility.
Xu Lei felt a mix of emotions he couldn't quite describe.
He vaguely remembered Xu Ningyan, his half-sister. When he was two or three, or even five or six, at school or behind his parents' backs, someone had secretly asked him about his older sister.
He was young and didn't understand things at the time. When he got back, he cried and asked Xu Changfeng and Wu Hongqin if he had an older sister who had been abandoned in the countryside.
Xu Lei was fooled by Xu Changfeng and Wu Hongqin, and no one knew what Xu Changfeng did after that, and no one asked Xu Lei again.
He gradually forgot about it.
It's only now that I vaguely remember it.
Seeing the real person now, reason told him that his family had indeed wronged Xu Ningyan, and Xu Ningyan deserved to take revenge on them.
But thinking of all the love her parents had given her over the years, and how her once harmonious and happy family had been destroyed in an instant by Xu Ningyan, she couldn't suppress the anger in her heart.
This made his expression look somewhat distorted.
Xu Jing didn't think too much about it; she just felt that since Xu Ningyan didn't seem to have suffered much, yet still reported Xu Changfeng, she was utterly wicked.
"You, since you're also my mother's child, how could you be so wicked, so heartless! You're going to ruin our whole family! Let me tell you, you'd better withdraw your report right now, or my mother will never forgive you! If you withdraw your report, I'll beg my mother for mercy. My mother loves me the most, and she'll recognize you back then. At worst, I'll call you 'sister' too—"
Xu Ningyan laughed and slowly uttered a few words: "Dream on!"
Xu Jing was so angry that she cried. She pointed at Xu Ningyan and was about to rush over when she was stopped by the sentry.
The sentry stopped Xu Jing while gesturing to Xu Ningyan, "Comrade Xu, please go back to your room quickly!"
Xu Ningyan refused!
She looked at Xu Lei and his sister with a half-smile: "You two are truly Xu Changfeng's good children, shameless as one! If I were you, I would have dug a hole in the ground and never come out! How dare you stand in front of the victim and brazenly demand that they give up revenge? Who gave you the courage? Your heartless mother or your shameless, ungrateful father? Come, tell me—"
Xu Lei and Xu Jing felt as if they had been slapped hard across the face; they never expected Xu Ningyan to show them no mercy whatsoever.
Xu Lei spoke with difficulty: "My dad was wrong! But he knows he was wrong and wants to make it up to you! Why are you so determined to hold this grudge? We're family, do we have to make things like this? I understand you're upset and want revenge, but since you accepted the compensation from my family, why did you have to push things to the extreme? What good does it do you to have my dad dismissed, locked up, and investigated?"
Xu Ningyan said with a smile, "Of course it's because I'm happy and willing! Besides, who's family with you? You haven't cared about us for over ten years, whether we live or die, and now you're scared, and you think you're family? Bah! Do you know what this is called? It's like only realizing you're in trouble when the snot is already in your mouth, or only starting to nurse when the baby is dead—it's too late! And, since your parents did the first thing, they should be prepared for others to do the fifteenth!"
"What? You can hurt others, but others can't hurt you?"
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